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AMD SmartAccess Storage is built to rival Nvidia's own DirectStorage-based technology, RTX IO
AMD has unveiled the first technical implementation of Microsoft's DirectStorage API: SmartAccess Storage. According to AMD's Chief Architect, Frank Azor—and parroted by marketing director, Adam Kozak, in our Computex pre-briefing—it's designed «to get you out of the load screen and into your gameplay faster than ever.»